"If the Wuhan lab-leak hypothesis is true, expect a political earthquake.
"...What if this crazy story turns out to be true?
The answer is that this is the kind of thing that could obliterate the faith of millions.
And it should, because the institutions in question were not worthy of faith, and were themselves faithless. Plus:`
Consider the details of the story as we have learned them in the last few weeks:• Lab leaks happen. They aren’t the result of conspiracies: “a lab accident is an accident,” as Nathan Robinson points out; they happen all the time, in this country and in others, and people die from them.
• There is evidence that the lab in question, which studies bat coronaviruses, may have been conducting what is called “gain of function” research, a dangerous innovation in which diseases are deliberately made more virulent. By the way, right-wingers didn’t dream up “gain of function”: all the cool virologists have been doing it (in this country and in others) even as the squares have been warning against it for years.
• There are strong hints that some of the bat-virus research at the Wuhan lab was funded in part by the American national-medical establishment — which is to say, the lab-leak hypothesis doesn’t implicate China alone...
In fact, when virtually every institution in America decided in lockstep that it was “racist” to call it a Chinese virus, or Wuhan virus, even though it was clearly a virus that came from Wuhan, China, it told the discerning observer two things:
- First, that it was indeed China’s fault, and
- second, that all of these institutions were on the Chinese payroll, or at least on the Chinese team.
Those “experts” were arrogant, ignorant, and often dishonest and corrupt. Why wouldn’t people lose faith in them? Why shouldn’t they?
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